Campus and the City: Urban Design for the Knowledge Society

Zürich: gta Verlag.  Mehr Namhafte Architekten und Experten präsentieren und kommentieren anhand internationaler Beispiele zeitgenössische Trends im Campus-Design. Betrachtungen zu 30 ausgewählten Campusprojekten – seien dies suburbane oder innerstädtische Hochschulanlagen, Technologieparks oder Konzernzentralen – geben Aufschluss über mögliche zukünftige Entwicklungen und deren Beziehung zum urbanen Kontext.

Kulturlandschaft (Cultural Landscape)

Everything shaped by humans is culture. This includes the territory. Cultural landscapes are created by the constant interaction of humans with nature. Their regional characteristics are due to natural conditions and increase with the growing technological development of the society inhabiting them. Cities are also part of the More

Urban Breeding Grounds

Urban landscapes of metropolitan regions are subjected to permanent change. This does not take place homogeneously throughout the entire territory but rather captures entire quarters in cycles. Through structural, economic, social or cultural transformation processes, zones formerly regarded as very stable can change within a few years to More

Airports and Cities

Airports and Cities is a research platform that brings together projects investigating the complex and multi-faceted reciprocity of urban and airport development to better understand the contemporary city and its mechanisms of urbanisation. Urban development is strongly determined by transport infrastructures. Many railway stations were initially positioned outside of More

Urban Potential and Strategies in Metropolitan Territories
 – The Zurich Metropolitan Region as an Example (NFP65)

The research project, Urban Potential and Strategies in Metropolitan Territories, provides an qualitative contribution to the current urban and spatial development debate in Switzerland and thereby does not differentiate between the urban, suburban or peri-urban categories, but rather along the selected urban qualities that have crystallized out of More

Strategien und Planungsinstrumente für polyzentrische Stadtregionen. Fallstudien Amsterdam und Zürich

Link zur Filmaufnahme Strategien und Planungsinstrumente für polyzentrische Stadtregionen. Fallstudien Amsterdam und Zürich Hohe Lebensqualität, hoher Wachstumsdruck: Die Bevölkerungsdichte im Schweizer Mittelland – wo zwei Drittel der Schweizer Bevölkerung leben – ist gleich hoch wie in den Niederlanden, dem am dichtesten besiedelten Land in Europa. Gemeinsam ist Amsterdam und More